Rush: You can't beat 'Santa'

Rush Limbaugh said on Wednesday one of the main reasons President Barack Obama won reelection was because voters viewed him as “Santa Claus.”

“Conservatism, in my humble opinion, did not lose last night. It’s just very difficult to beat Santa Claus. It is practically impossible to beat Santa Claus. People are not going to vote against Santa Claus, especially if the alternative is being your own Santa Claus,” Limbaugh said on his radio program Wednesday, according to a show transcript.

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Limbaugh said that while GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney might not have been the “optimal” candidate, he would’ve “been great for this country.”

“Now, everybody is jumping on Romney’s chain today, getting in his chili. Look, he may have not been the most optimal candidate, but he’s a fine man. He would have been great for this country. Mitt Romney and his family would have been the essence of exactly what this country needs,” Limbaugh said, according to the transcript. “But what was Romney’s recipe? Romney’s recipe was the old standby: American route to success, hard work. That gets sneered at. I’m sorry.”

He continued: “In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins? And say what you want, but Romney did offer a vision of traditional America.”

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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” - Alexis de Tocqueville

I love how these guys are defending "conservatism". Implying "it" didn't lose last night.

Invading foreign countries nearly alone is not conservative.

Nation building is not conservative.

Tax cuts that were not paid for is not conservative.

Running deficits when the economy is good is not conservative

Ignoring the entire Libertarian wing of your party is not conservative

Making blanket laws that polarize the electorate on issues like abortion is not conservative.

Letting people keep crashing ER's in this country because they can't afford insurance is not conservative.

Letting our industries fail is not conservative.

Not supporting projects that transcend special interests like infrastructure and energy is not conservative.

Hating gay people is not conservative.

You know what it is? Christian Fundamentalism. The GOP was exposed as the American Taliban and they paid the price yesterday. Conservatives repent, your party not only believes in big government, they want it bigger...for them.

If businesses are going to make huge profits by sending jobs to China, or receive subsidies from the government, or ask for bailouts when they screw up, then don't be surprised when the People say that it is only fair that some of their concerns are addressed, such as healthcare and education. If the People accept IPhones, and know that those phones are produced elsewhere instead of here, and Apple becomes a wealthy company, then don't be surprised if Apple's profits get taxed to pay for an American kid's Pell Grant.

please ... what he is doing is deflecting ... people have rejected the intractably rigid ideology of conservativism which elrushbo not only represents but powers with his brand of nonsensical ideology. He is one half of the problem for creating it and you are the other half for believing it

As long as the right wing and Republicans listen to Rush and give him any credibility, they will be on the losing end of elections. He spews hatred and misinformation to a group that is accepting of his rants as truth. He creates an alternative world that does not represent real American or real representations of political events. As long as Rush has credibility with this group they will continue to give away elections. The hatred spread by this man is truly one of the cancers eating away at our great democracy.

Recall that it was Romney who used the standard GOP bribery tactic of promising a 20% across the board tax cut for everybody inclusing the rich who have already had their stocking stuffed with massive tax breaks like Romney with his "carried interest" 15% not 35% tax rate on his huge Bain Capital salary and the also GOP-created tax break for the rich 15% reduced tax rate on dividends. It was Bush-Cheney taht not only allowed corporations tax breaks for shipping five million manufacturing jobs overseas along with thousands of tax dodging companies whose assets moved offshore or overseas depriving the nation of badly-needed revenues. Talk about Santa Claus the facts speak for themselves: from 1979-2006 incomes for the top one percent went up 275% while the Middle Class declined by 25% and wages for the 99% mostly stagnated. In short, Republicans have been the Santa Claus mostly for the rich and Scrooges for everybody else.

Apparently Rush seems to be talking like the real behind-the-scenes Romney who wrote off 47% who he considered like Rush to be tax dodgers by avoiding federal taxes (like Romney and likely high school grad intellectual Limbaugh) (though they pay a variety of state, payroll, property, sales, and other taxes) and unwilling to take personal responsibility for themselves.

You know what it is? Christian Fundamentalism. The GOP was exposed as the American Taliban and they paid the price yesterday. Conservatives repent, your party not only believes in big government, they want it bigger...for them.

YOU are ones that don't get it. The only reasons there's a lot o religious folk on our side, is because we're the ones that PROTECT their individual liberties. The Left drove them here, with their typical sneering persecution. Rightism is about individuals, not groups... and when you guys "control the group" you think you can just tell the rest of us INDIViDUALS what do. It's sick.

"Offering a vision of traditional America? The Republicans don't get it...their traditional America doesn't exist anymore. This isn't 1950 anymore. What was the headline? Too old, too white, too male? " All you're proving is that: 1) you have no idea about the original foundings of this country 2) that's what YOU think that means. Which is pretty sick. 3) you're a total reflexive Leftist shill.

Over the next few weeks we'll be hearing every excuse in the book except the truth: a majority of Americans don't agree with the Republican platform. I can't wait to see who will be the first dope to say "he wasn't conservative enough", as though conservatives voted for Obama because Romney fell short of their expectations.

Well, how about the right of 2 consenting adults to marry regardless of gender?

Howabout the right of a woman to have an abortion, seeing as its her body?

You right wing nutbars preach small government and the need to get the government out of an individual's way, but only when it suits YOUR views. If its something that doesn't suit your views, GET THE GOVERNMENT IN THERE RIGHT AWAY! STOP THEM! Screw their rights!